{"id":433689,"date":"2023-04-20T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433689"},"modified":"2023-04-20T22:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:43:50","slug":"maple-leafs-destroy-lightning-7-2-to-tie-the-series","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/maple-leafs-destroy-lightning-7-2-to-tie-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs destroy Lightning 7-2 to tie the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Tavares scored a hat trick to secure the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/tampa-bay-lightning\/\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> 7-2 in Game 2 from this 1<sup>st<\/sup> round playoff series.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SERIES TIED!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LGCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LGCanada<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeafsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7wq1RzI57c\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7wq1RzI57c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1649231399243620354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mitch Marner notched twice and had an assist, William Nylander scored and also gave an assist, as the other goal netted Zach Aston-Reese for the Canadian franchise to equal the series 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Rielly tied a franchise achievement with 4 assists. Auston Matthews also with a great role in the win with 2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Samsonov stopped 19 shots for Maple Leafs after being substituted in Game 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Guess who \u2b50\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Molson_Canadian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Molson_Canadian<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeafsForever?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LeafsForever<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n54QBFW9kA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/n54QBFW9kA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1649238233321013248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ian Cole and Corey Perry notched for Tampa Bay as the game missed Victor Hedman and Erik Cernak because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The next matches from series \u2013 3 and 4 will be in Florida on Saturday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qrg5-b5y6zk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Tavares scored a hat trick to secure the Toronto Maple Leafs victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning 7-2 in Game 2 from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433690,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,17164,16734],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18408,17890,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Toronto trashed Tampa Bay on Thursday night.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433689"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433689"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}